News Consumption Quotes

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

I don't really read the papers.

I wake up at 4:15 A.M., get some coffee, turn on the news, see what's happening, go clickety-clack on the web to see what I missed overnight. Then I go to the gym, around 5:15, and I do what appears to be a very light workout, but who cares. I'm socializing with other nice people at the gym. Then I go into work, and I'm really awake.

We've seen the bankruptcy of many newspapers. We've seen a further erosion of the line between news and entertainment. But I do believe that there is reason to hope that over time we will see the higher-quality journalism rise to the surface.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

I don't watch the media that much.

We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.

I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

I can't remember exactly, but the White House is not keen on people going on Fox News. It's my view that while people in the administration feel that Fox News doesn't give them a fair shake, the fact of the matter is there are a lot of people who watch Fox News.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of in the place that Google and Facebook are now - how do we get more people to buy a copy? Then there was a shift in the early 20th century. They needed to do better, and readers and consumers demanded that of them.